Things are rather quiet at the site. Indeed, when I arrived, there was no one in sight. Just the melodious tunes of country-western songs blasting for the boom-box...
The typical view from the SE shows almost all the steel pieces that were on the ground are now in the air. A large concrete cube on the left is an electical vault, which will be part of the underground electical wiring. In the far right the large bamboos which were down and the lower retention pond have been planted on the north side of the upper retention pond.
Looking at the east side of the east wall, the steel columns and beams give a good sense to the eventual form of this facade.
Whoa, the photo-stitch did not have enough to work with to make this panorama shot look good. But we can see the pond on the right, and the Main Gate on the left. The horizontal beams connect the columns seen last week.
Looking through a leak window at the pond and main gate, the column stones sit on their seats awaiting the installation of their bases. And the pond appears to be holding water!
And just outside the Courtyard, to the south, crates and crates (and even a few MORE crates of stones) are patiently awaiting the arrival of the Chinese crew.
Robert did return before I left, and he told me there has been a minor set back in the flow of materials from China. A bug of some sort was found in the crating inside a container of roof tiles, so the whole shipment of six containers was rejected and sent back home. Not wishing to lose the time it would take for them to be re-crated and re-set, another shipment of tiles was immediately dispatched. So, somewhere out there in the wide Pacific, two containers will pass in the night, helping to keep the construction schedule on schedule.
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